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thropometric laboratory and office for Assistant Curator Sul- 

 livan. By special arrangement the equipment of the physi- 

 ological laboratory is now available for the work of this 

 Department. The Galton Society has organized a special 

 laboratory for the study of racial characters, which, for the 

 present, is housed in this department, the Curator being the 

 Chairman of its governing committee and Assistant Curator 

 Sullivan, its Director. 



Assistant Curator Spinden discovered a correlation between 

 the calendars of the Aztec and Maya that promises to give us 

 an unbroken historical record for the New World from the 

 beginning of the Christian era. Mr. Leslie Spier has com- 

 pleted an exhaustive study of the sun dance of the Plains 

 Indians revealing some interesting culture movements among 

 these tribes. Dr. Elsie Clews Parsons has nearing completion 

 a detailed analysis of the social organization of the Rio 

 Grande Pueblo Indians. 



Our growing series of popular publications has been 



strengthened by the issue of a handbook on the "Peoples of 



the Philippines" by Professor A. L. Kroeber, 



Educational Professor of Anthropology at the University of 



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California, who filled a temporary appointment 

 to the staff of the Department in 1918. A special guide for 

 visitors and students of aboriginal art was prepared by the 

 Curator under the title "Indian Beadwork." 



The following lectures were given during the year: — 



H. J. Spinden : 



Central American Travels (Brooklyn Institute) 



Decoration and Symbolism of the Pueblo Indians 

 (Institute of Arts and Sciences, Columbia 

 University) 



The Creation of a National Art (Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences, Columbia University) 



Museums and Industrial Art (American Association 

 of Museums) 

 R. H. Lowie: 



Primitive Ideas of Property (Philadelphia An- 

 thropological Society) 



